Julie loses her husband, Patrice, a well-known composer, and their young daughter, Anna, in an auto accident and must begin life anew. She decides to become anonymous and totally independent, and she deliberately cuts herself off from everything that she has possessed so abundantly before. Olivier, Patrice's young assistant, has always loved Julie. To try and bring her out of isolation, he decides to finish the "Concerto for Europe," that had been left unfinished at the  composer's death.